Automobile.



No. 893,867. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908. B. s. H. PEREYRA.

AUTOMOBILE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28. 1907.

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E. S. H. P'EREYRA.

AUTOMOBILE. APPLICATION FILED DECFZB, 1907.

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S E S S M U W v PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

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AUTOMOBILE. APPIJONHON FILED DEC/.28, 1907.

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EUGENE S. H. PEREYRA, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AUTOMOBILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application fllod'December 2B, 1907. Serial No. 408,446.

Patented July 21, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE STEPHENSON HUMBERT'PER YRA, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of New York and .State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automobiles, of which the following is a complete and clear specification.

My invention relates to means whereby an automobile maybe converted into-an automobile sled by simply removing the wheels and putting in their places runners, and at tachmg a substructure which carries spiked drive wheels adapted to be driven by the sprockets usually employed to drive the rear wheels; or if the automobile be of the shaft drive type, sprockets may be mounted on the rear shaft to drive said spiked wheels.

My object is to provide sleighing attache Inents which may be put on any automobile without materially changing the existing structure of same. shown in the accompanying drawings, illustrating a chain drive automobile WiLh-sleig'h ing attachments mounted thereon.

n the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automobile with sleighing attach- Fig. 2 is a plan view of the chassis, s owing the drive and general arrangement of parts. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3+3 of Fig. 2. tive view of the sub-structure. Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the spiked drive wheels. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail section showing the drive and one form of brake.

In the drawings similar numbers refer to similar parts throughout.

The body of the car 1 is mounted on the frame 2, which carries the half elliptic springs 3 and 4. The s ring 3 carries the usual front axle 5, and tie spring 4 carries the rear axle 6.

Pivotally mounted on the axle 5 are the usual trunnions 7 (see Fig. 2) for the wheels 8; or the-runners 9 carryin bearings 10. Thexbearings 10 are fas'tene to said trunnions 7 by nuts 11, which may be put on with a s nner wrench or the like.

he trunnions 7 pivoted at 21, are operatedby'the usual form of steering gear which consists of a steering wheel 19, secured on the shaft 20, which also has fast to it a worm. 18, which meshes with a worm wheel 17. The worml? has fast to it a radial arm 16. The trunnions 7 pivoted at 21 each carry an arm I attain these objects, as"

Fig. 4 is a perspec springs 28.

12, said arms being connected by a link 13. i

The. right hand trunnion carries. a second arm 14 which is connected to the radial arm 16 with a link 15.

It will be readily understood that by turning the steeri wheel 19, the-shaft20 and worm 18 are a so caused to turn, as is also the worm wheel 17. The arm 16 will receive an angular movement and transmit it to the link 15 and arms 14 and 12, thereby turnin the trunnions on their vertical pivots 21 and cause the runners which ,are mounted on Therefore it will be under-' them to move. stood that as far as steering is concerned the automobile nee lnot be'changed, because the runners 9 are carried on the same trunnions 7 as are the wheels 8, when used.

The rear runners 22 are also mounted on the same trunnions '23 that are usually used for the rear wheels, and are fastened to said trunnions by nuts .24. The rearand front sleds are so mounted that they may turn freely on the trunnions 23 and 7 respectively,

to compensate vfor inequalities in the road.

On t e rear portion of the frame 2 I attach 'a substructure 25, composed of two cross rods '26 and27 and two longitudinal half elliptic springs 28-28. The springs 28 are loosely fastened to lugs 29, depending from the rods 26 and 27 by pins 30 passing through said lugs and eyes in the ends of said Fastened at the'center of the springs 28 are blocks 31 whichsupport the axle 32. At the outer ends of'the axle 32 is securely fas tened a sleeve 33 (see Fig. 6) forming part of the ball bearings for the spiked drive wheels 34. Each wheel 34 has an elongated hub 35 forming part of the ball bearing, and has securel fastened at its outer end a sprocket whee 36. a l

The wheels 34. are cast with an annular flange 37 and have spikes 38 of hard rubber,

or other suitable material, around their peripheries.

' The substructure 25 is attached to the frame as follows: On one side of the frame 2, large clearance holes are drilled so that the rods 26and 27 may be assed through them. The ends 39 and 40 of t e rods 26 and 27 are passed through said clearance holes and then carefully withdrawn enough to let the ends 41 and 42 enter the correct sized holes on the op osite side of the frame. The clearance ho es are then fitted with bushings 43 and 44, which are drilled to fit the rods 26am! spiked wheels 34 in contact with the roadbed, and the spikes 38 dig in said roadbed and give the wheels a good purchase to drive by. The sprockets 36 are driven by the usual drive sprockets 48 and chains 49; sa'd drive sprockets 48 bein drivenin the manner through the s aft 50, diflerusual ential 51 transmission gearing 5'2 and the clutch 53 controlled in the usual manner and driven by the engine 54. Therefore, to convert an automobile into a vehicle for sleighing, it is onl necessary to remove the, four Wheels and the two drive chains, and put in their laces the sleigh runners 9 and 22, attach t e sub-structure as described above and connect the drive sprockets 48 with th sprockets36 by the chains 49;

When the clutch 53 is thrown in by the usual means, thespilied wheels will be caused to rotate and propel the car, the course being controlled by the steering means described.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a convertible automobile, a detachable sub-structure, yieldingly connected to said automobile; which sub-structure ma be attached by passing transverse cross r0 s through holes in the main frame of said automobile and fastening said rods to'the frame by nuts substantially as described.

2. A detachable structure, consisting of cross rods carrying springs with an axle rigidly connected to t em, said axle havin spiked drive wheels with sprockets secured to thern, mounted for rotation on said axle said structure being adapted to be fastened to the main frame of an automobile.

' EUGENE S. H. PEREYRA.-

Witnesses:

H. Cnoonnnon, Geo, PfiLscHEN. 

